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Our 2024-2027 Strategic Plan outlines clear goals aligned with President Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda. This Strategic Plan is divided into 3 parts: The Programmatic Plan, The Organisational Development Plan and the Operational Plan. The Programmatic plan speaks to all the programs and initiatives geared towards youth inclusion, empowerment and political education. The plans are more external; focusing more on what the organisation can do for not just APC youth but the overall youth demography in Nigeria within the next three years. The Organisational Development Plan is aimed at developing the Youth Wing as an organisation; strengthening its base and operations in order to achieve success in the proposed programs. In this plan, we explore the ways in which we can grow as an organisation by taking stock of our strengths and weaknesses and leveraging on opportunities for development. The final part is the Operational Plan which gives us technical insight into how the organisation will run. - Dr. Dayo Israel

25th of May 2024, the whole of Africa will be hyped in celebrating six decades plus one year (61 years) after the sitting of the Organization of African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the same day in 1963. Commemorating the work started by our African forefathers, this year's celebrations will be running through the theme: Educate an African fit for the 21st Century: Building resilient education systems for increased access to inclusive, lifelong, quality, and relevant learning in Africa. With this in mind; cognizant of our current affairs, regionalism, integration and welfare, I would like to pose some questions: Suppose our forefathers, Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere among others were to resurrect to life, what is the update will we be giving to them regarding the foundation the laid for us? What will we be celebrating when our fellow brothers and sisters in the Central African Republic, Sudan and West Africa are living either in the bondage of militarism or escaping violent extremism and conflicts, while our brothers and sisters are drowning in the Mediterranean escaping their own motherland? Our brothers and sisters in Eswatini, Mozambique and Uganda are crying foul like Malians of a failed economy, election, and political foul plays, machinations and military instrumentalization? With the little and covet development being registered across the continent, I would ask: How African is the Africa Day: Celebrating having a better melanin and natural resources when we beg those with supposed little melanin and without resources? I take this moment to weep over the vision of my forefathers and take up my armour to challenge the Africans all over the continent to self-introspect and reflect upon the foundation of the OAU, now the AU, and envision the route we have taken to re-establish and reshape our trajectory for the success of all, not only in theoretical politics, but economics and social justice in its realistic sense. #Food_for_thought #rise_up_Africa #Self_introspect_Africa

The Workplan.. Join me..🙏🏽 With a deep calling to invest in making my country Nigeria thrive I chose to come back home after 24 years in international affairs in ten countries. To channel this intention, I founded a non governmental organization (NGO). https://lnkd.in/dYFRDPgn The NGO; Upward for Growth has four advocacy initiatives: 1, The Checklist is a project and tool to support the recovery of African countries that have been hosting protracted international humanitarian presence for years. The recommendation for recovery comes from and through the knowledge acquired from almost 30 years in international affairs. https://lnkd.in/eKGHxSVZ 2. Connected to the above is the project ‘Up Word for Growth’ which has been established to alert Africa to the denigrating terms we must not have settled for, and must no longer accept and allow! Through this project, we monitor, challenge and correct negative and racist representations of Africa. We raise awareness to the impact of negative branding of the continent for aid. We monitor the words and communication strategies used to negatively brand Africa for fund raising for international humanitarian aid. 3. We are developing a project on peace building to promote community based initiatives for peaceful access to mutually owned resources 4. Up and running is the Gender Electoral Representation in Nigeria (GERIN) project. The goal is to empower Nigeria’s women full engagement in Nigeria’s electoral office, this project is non-partisan. We want to ensure that all parties include women in electoral offices. We are committed to promoting and encouraging more women to run for elective office. https://lnkd.in/dYFRDPgn #nigeria #workplan #goals

Check out this insightful report on the current challenges and needs faced by the media in Nigeria, highlighting, in particular, the influence of hate speech and dehumanization on continued violence in the country. Special thanks to Internews and Arwen Kidd for incorporating Beyond Conflict's research on the role of dehumanization and threat perception in inter-religious conflict in northern Nigeria as one part of this important conversation. 📖 Read the full Internews report here: https://lnkd.in/ekwbpcf3 📍 Learn more about Beyond Conflict's media interventions in Nigeria here: https://lnkd.in/e7hYz8hv

Accelerating Intra African Trade through enhanced transportation and logistics. Africa Prosperity Dialogue, Accra 25th Jan 2024 Theme Session : Accelerating Intra African Trade through enhanced transportation and logistics Amine AKADIRI, CEO-FEWACCI, CEO-Africa Union Business Council (AfBC) 1. Introduction The Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FEWACCI) stands as a pivotal regional organization, representing the dynamic and diverse private sector of West Africa. Established in year 70’s , FEWACCI emerged from the collective vision of the entire Private sector in west Africa with focal point in each chambers of commerce and Industry. Its inception was driven by a fundamental objective : to give a unified voice and a powerful tool to the business community in West Africa, aimed at fostering development and reducing poverty. Read the full article on: https://lnkd.in/egwf-t2e

📢 New Release: eVALUation Matters Magazine Knowledge Brokering and Use of Evidence in Tackling Africa’s Challenges In this edition of eVALUation Matters, we explore the crucial task of promoting the use of #evaluation and evidence in decision-making, and aligning knowledge needs with available, relevant information in the African context. Featuring insights from experts across the continent, this volume addresses: 🔹 Strategic knowledge brokering for policy advancement   🔹 Case studies from South Africa, Uganda, Burkina Faso, and more   🔹 Reflections on evidence use in African parliaments   🔹 IDEV's experience in using evidence to tackle Africa's challenges Discover how evaluative knowledge can inform better decision-making and foster sustainable development across #Africa. 📥 Read the full magazine here: https://lnkd.in/dnAJWmp

We understand that sustainable social and behavior change can only be achieved by supporting, leveraging and elevating the existing capabilities of the people, communities and organizations closest to where change is needed. This is why we call our approach to local capacity strengthening, accompaniment. For us, accompaniment is an intentional, collaborative and respectful process where we support mutual effectiveness, learning and resilience. At the core of our accompaniment model lies the A-CORD framework: To Assess - Commit, Organize, Relate and Deliver. This framework facilitates a participatory process for local organizations to self-analyze their strengths and challenges, supports their comprehensive action planning, and promotes continual collaboration, adaptation and learning. Learn more about Corus organization IMA World Health's inclusive and collaborative approach to SBC and accompaniment: https://bit.ly/4ax73Yu #SocialBehaviorChange #SBC #LocalCapacity #CapacityBuilding #Accompaniment #Partnership [Video: Corus President and CEO Daniel Speckhard spoke about our accompaniment model to capacity strengthening at the recent Africa Christian Health Associations Platform's (ACHAP) Biennial Conference in Abuja.]

Happy election day, South Africa 🇿🇦! Today is such an important day for our country. As you make the final decision on who to vote for, keep these in mind: 1. Does the party for which you are voting reflect the South Africa you want to see and live in, in the next 5 years and beyond? 2. Do the party's leaders inspire confidence? Are they capable, competent, committed and ethical? Are they in touch with the lived realities of South Africans and sensitivities of the country at this time? 3. Do they have a manifesto that address pertinent challenges that plague South Africa everyday? Crime, GBV, inequality, water and sanitation infrastructure, healthcare? Remember, we all have a part to play in shaping our #democracy and we cannot afford to be apathetic. Take a stand and make a well informed decision today. South Africa is worth fighting for. Democracy is worth fighting for. All the best, Mzansi! 🇿🇦🗳️ #NationalElectionsSA IEC (Electoral Commission of South Africa)

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑 New BASIC Research and Irish Aid working paper outlines social protection and conflict-sensitivity directions in the context of #Mozambique, where there are high levels of poverty and climatic emergencies. This report contains an overview of the main conflict-sensitive concerns for social protection programmes and implementation modalities in Mozambique at the regional, local, and programme levels. It also includes a set of recommendations for generating inclusive policy debate on the importance of conflict-sensitive social protection at national scale rather than exclusively in the northern region, in addition to recommendations for strengthening coordination, knowledge management, and human resources and institutional capacities. 📑 Read the working paper in Portuguese👉 https://lnkd.in/e5mrtB3W 📑 Read the working paper in English👉https://lnkd.in/e9eBPuy7

In pursuit of ‘ECOWAS of people’ through the operationalisation of the ECOWAS vision 2050. #ECOWAS #regionalintegration #regionaldevelopment #civilsociety #opensocietyfoundations